Taylor Swift

In a word, "1989" is killing it.

Taylor Swift made headlines this week by bucking the trend and selling the most albums of any artist since 2002. The former country crooner's embrace of pop—and taking her cathartic song writing abilities to uptempo mass beats—has paid off in spades. Swift is the only artist to have three weeks straight of over a million albums sold—and she's the only artist to go platinum in 2014. Naysayers have just been officially shown the proverbial hand. We find this level of girl power very chic.